Food

The first NutRageous I ever had came from a gas station. Orange wrapper, weird name, never seen it before. I bought it because everything else in the display had been picked over and I was hungry enough to try something unfamiliar. What I was not prepared for was an involuntary, immediate, full-attention physical reaction: this is different. Every component doing something. Nothing gratuitous. Nothing filling space. The kind of balance you genuinely don’t expect to encounter between a register and a gas pump. ...

You might think that “Slurpee” and “Slushie” are just two different words for the same icy treat. If so, you’d be wrong. In the world of frozen beverages, there is a massive divide between an engineered masterpiece and a cup of flavored ice. If you want the best, you want a Slurpee. Here is exactly why they aren’t created equal. The Slurpee: The Champagne of Frozen Drinks A Slurpee isn’t just a drink; it’s a Frozen Carbonated Beverage (FCB). This is why it’s exclusively found at 7-Eleven—it requires a heavy-duty machine that injects CO2 into the mix under high pressure. ...